What you don’t know about hailstorms will hurt you.

The National Geographic defined hail or hailstones as a type of precipitation in the atmosphere produced through water freezing in thunderstorm clouds or cumulonimbus clouds, similar to Lucando’s statement.

Cumulonimbus clouds are low, dense clouds that normally signal incoming bad weather caused by the rising temperature in the environment.

“Hailstones are formed by layers of water attaching and freezing in a large cloud. A frozen droplet begins to fall from a cloud during a storm, but is pushed back up into the cloud by a strong updraft of wind,” says National Geographic.

As frozen water droplets form into layers, they will become too heavy for the cloud to carry, eventually falling to Earth.

Yes, they’re dangerous.

Similar to other forms of storms, hailstorms cause extreme damage to properties and destroy lives, particularly to other places in the world like the United States, India, and China.

The deadliest hailstorm ever recorded was in India in 1888 that killed nearly 250 people.

There have been attempts to prevent hail through the years, according to the National Geographic:

“In the 20th century, Russia and the United States tried cloud seeding. Cloud seeding is adding chemical particles into clouds from rockets or aircraft. Cloud seeding is thought to control rain and hail.”